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(Carmel Conaty) What we focus on are things that go on outside of school. So things that go on
either after school, summer camps, museums and science center's. Really 95 percent
of all science learning occurs outside the classroom, so we really want to take
advantage of that. First we have our visitor center where we get about
anywhere between 35 and 40 thousand visitors each year. We can bring the
latest stuff that goes on the work and the people of Goddard, right to the
visitor center. So one fun program that we've been running for the last couple
years is called the Sunday experiment. On the third Sunday of every month, we do
hands-on activities for elementary age students and their families from 1 to 3
p.m.. So our goal is to kind of take that great excitement that NASA always
generates and really see if we can add learning to it.
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